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About Afssaps

The National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products is the public actor which allows, on behalf of the State, access to health products in France and which ensures their safety throughout their life cycle. . At the heart of the health system, we act in the service of patients and their safety. We promote access to innovative products via authorization procedures adapted to each stage of the drug's life before and after its marketing. Through our evaluations, our expertise and our surveillance policy, we ensure that the health products available in France are safe, effective, accessible and properly used. We are collaborators, spread over three sites: Saint-Denis, Lyon and Montpellier-Vendargues. We rely on a national, European and global network of expertise and surveillance in compliance with the principles of ethics and transparency. Our missions Every health product has benefits but also risks: we speak of a “benefit-risk balance. Our mission is to ensure that this balance is positive. And this, from the stage of development of a therapeutic innovation. This is how, with the aim of facilitating access to innovative products in complete safety for patients, the ANSM intervenes in different modalities in order to support innovation and supervise its provision in an early, safe and equitable manner. . We are an open agency, in permanent dialogue with our environment to inform our action and make our decisions known.